Ronald J. Yacketta wrote: > > > Michael DeHaan wrote: >> Ronald J. Yacketta wrote: >> >>> Running through the snippets in an attempt to resolve another issue and >>> I noticed the following in post_instyall_network_config >>> >>> if [ -f "/etc/modprobe.conf" ] && [ $IFNAME ]; then >>> grep \$IFNAME /etc/modprobe.conf | sed "s/\$IFNAME/$iname/" >> >>> /etc/modprobe.conf.cobbler >>> grep -v \$IFNAME /etc/modprobe.conf >> /etc/modprobe.conf.new >>> rm -f /etc/modprobe.conf >>> mv /etc/modprobe.conf.new /etc/modprobe.conf >>> fi >>> >>> >>> not sure about RHEL, but Fedora does not use modprobe.conf for this type >>> of configuration. I created a similar thread with subject 'Arbitrary NIC >>> naming' back on 2/24/09 according to Jasper Capel: >>> >>> Modprobe.conf just isn't used for that purpose in F10 >>> anymore. >>> >>> I'll file a bug against this as well and update this thread with the bug ID >>> >>> >>> -Ron >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> cobbler mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler >>> >>> >> >> It's probably not hurting things. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> cobbler mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler >> > > I agree that there might be a limited number of endusers renaming > interfaces, but we are installing systems in a VM (Qemu) and would > like to rename the guest interfaces to match the underlying bridge > they are using. > > The usage of modprobe.conf over udev rules prevents this from > happening during a cobbler/koan install.
I believe one of the features of the network interface arbitrary naming support was exactly this, though I don't use it. Any comments, Jasper (or others?) > > Another issue that I noticed today is that no matter what I try / do > the nic being created for the VM is always the hypervisor default. > Tried everything to get cobbler to build out the proper xml to have a > virtio or e1000 module used. virtio capability is chosen by libvirt/virtinst based on the characteristics of the OS. If you imported the OS via cobbler import the OS version fields should be set correctly on the distro to give you virtio capability. If not, you can set this using distro edit. > > -Ron > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > cobbler mailing list > [email protected] > https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler > _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list [email protected] https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
